Ken Fuchs wrote: > On Thu, 26 May 2005, Florin Iucha wrote: > >>Do you have any links/references/howto on using Fiber Channel? I was >>interested in the same thing, but I did not find any good references. > > > Rather than using Fibre Channel (FC), one might consider ATA/SATA over > Ethernet (AoE). There's a good article on AoE in the June issue of > Linux Magazine. There's also a less technical article on AoE in the > June issue of Linux Journal. > > At least for new equipment, AoE network devices will be a about 1/10 the > cost of FC devices. > > Sincerely, > > Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> > Crap, hit send button too soon. Anyway, from what I've found ATA over Ethernet seems like a one horse show, which raises my suspicions somewhat. More interesting to me is iSCSI. I can see their arguments regarding the unnecessary additional overhead required by wrapping a storage protocol in TCP/IP when the disks are only 3 feet away, but it seems to me that it is simpler to wrap something in TCP/IP than to figure out a new transport layer without screwing it up. There is a pretty good Linux iSCSI target in development right now, http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108475. I just wish I had sparkier hardware to really test it out against.